On June 6, 2025 the White House issued an executive order that calls for U.S. industry to accelerate its domestic production of unmanned aircraft systems.

The House Appropriations defense subcommittee has released the draft text of its fiscal year 2026 spending bill , marking the Defense Department's topline to $831.5 billion, the same amount enacted in ...

The innovation lab under Army Futures Command has announced it is surveying industry for protective technologies to shield armored vehicles against small, cheap drones that have proven lethal against ...

On June 9, 2025 the House Appropriations Committee released its draft fiscal year 2026 defense spending bill, which will be considered in subcommittee the following day during a closed mark-up. Also ...

The undated White House Office of Management and Budget document "contains the detailed budget estimates for the Department of Defense referenced in the Technical Supplement to the 2026 Budget: ...

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An experimental operations unit to test and evaluate the first and future increments of Collaborative Combat Aircraft has officially been stood up at Nellis Air Force Base, NV, according to a service ...

The Pentagon has quietly canceled a long-anticipated industry engagement on space-based missile interceptors, dealing another setback to the Trump administration's push to rapidly launch the most ...

Though technology and artificial intelligence adoption can be particularly difficult for the Navy -- due to ships being away at sea, difficulty obtaining data rights and a lack of connection between ...

Rather than asking for an increase in the topline of the annual budget, the Army will likely need to accomplish its ambitious transformation initiative within a budget that looks similar to this ...

With China outpacing the United States in industrial capacity, the Pentagon must take a broader approach to building the defense production base needed to counter Beijing, according to a new report ...

The February 2024 Defense Science Board report -- released April 11, 2025 -- "examines the current defense industrial base (DIB), considering current economic and security pressures, as well as events ...